Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. W. PARKER, or sfr. cHARLEsILLINoIs.

.IMPROVED WASHINGMCHINE.

vSliecilication forming part of Letters Patent No: 451,131. dated December 1 t, 1864.

.To all tv lto'mft muy concern:

' declare Ithatthe following is afull,A clear, -and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art tomake and use the same, reference 'being had to theacconi'panying drawings, forming. part of this specifica-V tion, 1n w'iuch'f u. Figure l isa'vertical central section of the suds-boxof my improved clothes-washing ma 4 chine,the workingpartsbeinginsect-ion; Fig. 2, a detached inverted Vplan of the principalv working parts of the machine.

Similar-.letters of reference indicate correl sponding parts.

This invention consists in the employment" or use of armsattached radially' to the lower end of a'rot'ary shaft, which passes vertically through.the iid ot`-the suds box 'or tub, saill arms having' vertical iluted rollers at their fmay be constructed similar to an ordinary wash-tub, and provided with a closely-fitting lid orcover, B. C is a shaft, which'passes Vvertically and centrally, throughthe lid or cover B, and' has a bevel-wheel,`D, on its upper end "above the lid or cover B, as shown v"clearly inv Fig. 1. Into this bevel-wheel D a bevel-wheel, E, gears, the' latter being on one end of a horizontal shaft,F, one hearing, c, ot' which is attached to the lid, or cover B, and the other, a', fit-ted on a journal at the top ot' shaft U. This shaft F` is provided with a crank, il, at its outer end. .To the lower end of the shaft O there are attached four radial arms, b, each of-\vhich hasa pendent rod or shaft, c, attached to it, and on each of these rods or shafts c a. uted roller, H, is placed cuseiy and allowed lto turn freely.A The arms bare some distance below the lid or cover B of the tub A, and the rollers H extend down a considerable distance withinlthe tub A. The tub is supplied with a requisite quantity of suds, and the clothes ar'e subjected to a proper degree of friction and rubbing by turnin g the shaft F, the rollers H- acting efficiently upon the clothes, and performing their work without injurinr the same. The shaft vC is turned first in one direction and then in the other, acomplete revolution only being made when it is necessary to change the position of the clothes in the tub.

Having thus described Vmy invention, what I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

y The radial arms b, attached to the' vertical shaft C, and provided with the vertical tinted rollers H, all arranged with vthe suds-box or tub A, substantially as and for the purpose' herein set forth.

J, W. PARKER.

A ,Witnessesr t i H. T..RocxwELL,-'

Hormon HARR'ON'N. 

